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mapconcierge

ミラノ日本人学校での特別授業に合わせて、ミラノでの9ヶ月のフィールド研究のひとつの集大成として、ミラノの街に東京の地名を当てはめてみた Tokyo EYES on Milano 2025 MAP を公開しました。東京の街をよく知る人がミラノにやってきた時に、土地勘が掴みやすくなると思います。この投稿にGitHub リポジトリのURLもコメントしますので、ミラノ界隈の方々でそれは違うんじゃないかなというご意見ご要望なども受け付けております。誰よりもミラノの街を歩き尽くした自負はありますので、是非ミラノの街について熱く語りましょう！ 尚、大阪版も鋭意作成中です。フィードバックいただいた多くの方に感謝！

#Milano#Tokyo#MentalMaps
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michael

31-Oct-2024
Echolocating #bats use acoustic #mentalMaps to navigate long distances

eurekalert.org/news-releases/1 #science #echolocation

EurekAlert!Echolocating bats use acoustic mental maps to navigate long distancesBy blindfolding Kuhl's pipistrelle bats and tracking their movements with novel GPS technology, researchers show that the tiny creatures can navigate over several kilometers using only echolocation. The findings highlight the animal’s ability to create and use detailed mental acoustic maps of their surroundings. Echolocating bats are known for their ability to nimbly avoid obstacles and catch tiny prey using only sound. However, echolocation is short-ranged and highly directional, allowing for the detection of large objects within only a few dozen meters, limiting its effectiveness for navigation compared to other senses, like vision. Additionally, it is uncertain how well bats can use echolocation to perceive their surroundings in three dimensions or use environmental echoes as landmarks for navigation. Evaluating these questions is made more difficult due to the significant challenges of tracking the small, nocturnal, and highly agile creatures. Thus, whether the animals can rely solely on echolocation to navigate over long distances is unknown. Aya Goldshtein and colleages explored the sensory modalities and navigation strategies of Kuhl's pipistrelle (Pipistrellus kuhlii), a tiny echolocating bat weighing just 6 grams. In a field experiment in Northern Israel, Goldshtein et al. captured and relocated wild bats roughly 3 kilometers from their roosts to 1 of 2 unfamiliar locations within their home range. By depriving the bats’ sensory inputs, including vision via blindfolding, while keeping echolocation intact, and tracking the animals using a novel, miniature reverse GPS tracking system in near real-time, Goldshtein et al. examined how the bats navigated back to their roost. The findings show that bats can navigate over several kilometers using only echolocation and that, when available, also use vision to improve navigation performance. Notably, both sighted and blindfolded bats could not sense their roost directly. Initially, bats flew in a meandering pattern, likely to gather acoustic information from their surroundings, before transitioning to a direct flight toward their destination. The observation that distinct and detailed acoustic landmarks guided navigation suggests they use a mental acoustic map of their home range to orient themselves. Moreover, the authors found no evidence that bats use magnetic sensing or olfaction to aid navigation.
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Annales HSS

Comment penser historiquement l'#Atlantique du Nord-Ouest, et la conception qu'en avaient les marins (surtout des pêcheurs) qui, au XVIe siècle, le fréquentaient? Jack BOUCHARD propose d'en explorer les #cartes mentales dans ce très bel article:

➡️ Terra Nova. Cartes mentales de l’Atlantique du Nord-Ouest au XVIe siècle

👉 cambridge.org/core/journals/an
👉 cairn.info/revue-annales-2023-

#histodons #maps #mentalmaps #Canada #TerreNeuve #Newfoundland #Amérique
@histodons

Cambridge CoreTerra Nova | Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales | Cambridge CoreTerra Nova - Volume 78 Issue 2
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SFB 1265

📢New Blogpost!
@sfb1265 subproject "The spatial knowledge of young people" reflect on a collaborative workshop with Berlin highschoolers, in which they developed a Progressive Web Application that allows young people to map their everyday spaces.

sfb1265.de/en/blog/five-days-i

SFB 1265 „Re-Figuration von Räumen“Five days in a Berlin School: Participatory workshop for the development of a Progressive Web Application - SFB 1265 „Re-Figuration von Räumen“The article describes the basic principles and some key exercises of the five-day participatory workshop that took place in Berlin in November 2022 with a group of young students. The aim of the workshop was to develop a progressive web application together with the young Berliners, which will later be used by the same students to create mental maps, a research method employed to record the routines, paths and experiences of young people in (their) spaces.
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